"This book is a guide to thirteen backpacking trips in California and Nevada. Each trip description contains complete information to plan the hike, including detailed trail notes, maps, alternative routes, estimated number of days to complete, difficulty level, elevation gain/loss, nearby attractions and amenities, and so forth. Unlike other backpacking guides, this book also includes profiles of well-known individuals associated with the trails,...

"It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting 'eligible women' to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts,...